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should always be two qualities made, one better than the other for 

 the more delicate hounds, which must be apportioned by the hunts- 

 man properly among them. This may be reduced with cold broth 

 when wanted, to any degree of thinness ; and the meat, being cut 

 or torn up, is mixed with it. 



In feeding the hounds, the huntsman, having the troughs 

 supplied with the different qualities of food, orders the door to be 

 thrown open which communicates with the lodging-room; then, 

 having the hounds under proper control, they all wait till each 

 is called by name, the huntsman pronouncing each name in a 

 decided tone, and generally summoning two or three couples at a 

 time, one after the other. When these have had what he con- 

 siders sufficient, they are dismissed and others called in their turn ; 

 the gross feeders being kept to the last, when the best and most 

 nourishing part has been eaten. By thus accustoming hounds 

 in kennel to wait their proper turn, and to come when called, a 

 control is obtained out of doors which could never be accomplished 

 in any other way. Once a week, on a non-hunting day in the 

 winter, and every three or four days in the summer, some green 

 food, or potatoes or turnips, should be boiled up with the pud- 

 dings, and serves to cool the hounds very considerably. If this is 

 attended to very little physic is required, except from accidental 

 causes. 



A regular dressing and physicking is practised in some kennels, 

 the former to keep the skin free from vermin and eruptions, and the 

 latter with the same view, but also to cool the blood. This is by 

 no means necessary, if great care is taken with regard to cleanli- 

 ness, feeding, and exercise ; and in the royal kennels neither one 

 nor the other is practised; excepting when disease actually appears, 

 and not as a preventive measure. When it is considered desirable 



